Voicing displeasure against both the state and Central governments for not doing enough for the Bhopal gas tragedy victims, an organisation fighting for their cause has alleged that 32 years after the world's worst industrial disaster, the victims are still waiting foradequate relief and justice.

The manner in which eight members of banned group SIMI were gunned down in Madhya Pradesh is being questioned by the country's top human rights body and the opposition. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has declared that offensive.

The lawyer of the eight SIMI terror-accused killed in an encounter by the Madhya Pradesh police has demanded a CBI investigation alleging that their jailbreak hours before they were killed was a set-up.

He watched his colleague die after members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) slit his throat with a sharpened steel plate before escaping from the Bhopal Central Prison on Sunday night.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today attended the funeral of Head Constable Ramashankar Yadav, the jail guard killed by eight members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI, as they escaped from a Bhopal prison on Monday.

After the police gunned down eight members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI, the top official at the prison that they escaped from in Bhopal has said the jailbreak was waiting to happen. "If you have so many SIMI prisoners (in one place), something like this is bound to happen," he told NDTV today.

The police in Madhya Pradesh confronted tough questions on Monday after eight terror suspects from the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI broke out of jail in Bhopal and were shot dead hours later.

Eight members of the banned group Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI were killed on Monday hours after they escaped from a high security prison in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal after slitting the throat of a guard using a sharp weapon made from steel plates.

The chief ministers of Maharashtra and Jharkhand paid homage to soldiers who died fighting for the country at the recently inaugurated Shaurya Smarak in Bhopal. Devendra Fadnavis and Raghuvar Das were accompanied by Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Chouhan during their visit on Monday evening.

In Bhopal, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will honour martyrs and open a war memorial today, the mother of a soldier killed in 1994 alleges that policemen demanded bribe to look for her son's medals, stolen two years ago.